Korina Kordova (she/her) is an artist working within the confluences of choreography, dance, and performance.
Her practice meets the public through multimodal formats such as choreographic installations, dance performances, text, aural scores, and workshops.
Drawing from feminist new materialisms and engaging decolonial aesthesis, she proposes artworks as sensuous encounters between human and more-than-human entities, tangible matter and the invisible. She investigates relationality and displacement through a decolonial gaze; spaces between memory and mythmaking; and presence as motion between distinct modes of attention.
She moves between the roles of choreographer, dancer, performer, facilitator, mentor, dance dramaturge and curator. Originally from São Paulo, Brasil, she is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Since 2017 she’s been developing dialogic practices between human and extrahuman, thinking of artistic practices as ecology, researching non-Western epistemologies, and facilitating discursive practices related to ecology, communication beyond the human, and decolonial aesthesis. In 2022, in collaboration with choreographer Bianca Mendonca (BR/DE), she initiated and curated Postapocalyptic Encounters – a transdisciplinary platform gathering people interested in ways of thinking, moving and creating rooted in non-Eurocentric bodies of knowledge.
Her artworks have been developed and presented in such contexts as Festival Tanztage Berlin (DE), Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (CZ), TanzArt Ostwest in Giessen (DE), Art Stations Foundation in Poznań (PL), Teatr Studio and Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (PL), Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo (BR), Mostra PARALELA in Uberlândia (BR), Mostra Cult Dance in Brasília (BR), Centro de Referência da Dança da Cidade de São Paulo (BR), Outdoor gallery at På Sergels torg, Lusthuset in Spökparken, Gallery ID:I, Weld in Stockholm (SE), and Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg (SE), among others.
As a dramaturge, Korina has collaborated with Dina Hamida (SYR/SE), Mariana Costa (BR/SE) and Silja Tuovinen (FIN). As a dancer and performer, she has worked with dance and theatre companies, as well as with autonomous choreographers and directors in Europe and the Americas for the last 20 years. She worked with the Silesian Dance Theatre (PL), Kokoro Dance (CAN), BalletMet (USA), Samovarteateret (NO), Via Negativa (SLO), Cia. Corpos Nômades (BR), Jacek Łumiński (PL), Ramona Nagabczyńska (PL), Marta Żiółek (PL), Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (UK/DE), Joanna Leśnierowska (PL), Helena Ganjalyan (ARM/PL), Mihai Michalcea (RO), Idan Cohen (ISR), Kuik Swee Boon (SGP), Isabelle Schad (DE), Suzana Gomes (BR/NL), João Andreazzi (BR), Rebecca Chentinell (SE), among others. Between 2012 and 2015 she co-created choreographic works with choreographer and dance Przemek Kamiński (PL) and dramaturge Mateusz Szymanówka (PL/DE).
She trained as a dancer in her native São Paulo (BR) and in the Netherlands, and earned a Masters in Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL). In 2021 she undertook an internship in the Master Program in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts (SE). She also holds a Bachelors in Social Communication/ Journalism from Faculdade Cásper Líbero, São Paulo (BR). In 2023 she completed the Postmaster “Materialities; energies” at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
She’s a co-founder of “Center in Motion” (2013-2025) – an association and a space run by autonomous choreographers based in Warsaw (PL). She’s currently a board member of INSISTER SPACE, an artist driven organisation, platform, and network for freelance artists within the field of dance and choreography in Sweden. In 2024 she joined the Global Connect Program within the IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts.
